Watch Damaged Lives (1933) Free Online

Release Date: 1933

Cast: Marceline Day, Cecilia Parker, Diane Sinclair, Charlotte Merriam, Harry Myers, George Irving

Categories: Movies, Melodrama, Black-and-white, Medical fiction, Marriage Drama

Damaged Lives (1933) is a Canadian / American exploitation film produced by Columbia Pictures and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. The film is based on the French play Les Avariés (1901) by Eugène Brieux, about a couple that contracts a venereal disease. The film is also known as The Shocking Truth (American reissue title). IMDB says this was filmed at General Service Studios. The final The End title on the Internet Archive print says it was an Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. release. There have been other films based on Brieux's play. One was Damaged Goods made in 1914 and another also... MORE

Damaged Lives (1933) is a Canadian / American exploitation film produced by Columbia Pictures and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. The film is based on the French play Les Avariés (1901) by Eugène Brieux, about a couple that contracts a venereal disease. The film is also known as The Shocking Truth (American reissue title). IMDB says this was filmed at General Service Studios. The final The End title on the Internet Archive print says it was an Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. release. There have been other films based on Brieux's play. One was Damaged Goods made in 1914 and another also titled Damaged Goods in 1937. The 1937 version was directed by Phil Goldstone with a totally different cast, and was released by Grand National Pictures. It was closer to an exploitation film about premarital sex without mentioning venereal disease. The film involves an extramarital encounter that nearly leads the wife of the main character into killing herself and her husband. A boss insists that a young executive, with an important job and a long term girlfriend, go out with him to a party and while out at the party he sleeps with a young wealthy woman, Elise (Charlotte Merriam), and contracts LESS